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...early November 2005, the Prime Minister of Iran stated his intention to wipe Israel off the map. At almost exactly the same time, leaders of the American Jewish community declared war on the Christian Right...
...will continue to raise issues where we strongly disagree with their approach-most especially on a Christian America and the entangling of religion and government. We will not be silent or cower to threats on the issue of separation of church and state. This principle, embodied in the First Amendment, has not only sustained America as the most religious country in the Western world, but has produced a society where non-majority religious groups have been able to feel comfortable as equal citizens...
...that Evangelicals will proselytize them. Yet Jews are insulated from such blandishments by geography, culture and social class as well as religion. There are probably more ex-Jewish Buddhists than Baptists in America. Then there is the fear that to befriend Evangelicals is to support their project of "Christianizing" the U.S. The idea that Evangelicals want to turn America into a Christian government is both alarmist and mistaken. For one thing, there is no Evangelical legal system like Islamic sharia. Evangelicals have an agenda, but it is largely the restoration of moral and ethical standards that have typified...
...Israelis appreciate this. Every Israeli prime minister has cultivated their goodwill. Evangelical leaders, in turn, have been content to accept Israeli decisions. If Christian Zionists really were the crazed fanatics of liberal Jewish imaginings, they wouldn't have been so sanguine about Israeli withdrawals from "promised land...
...American Jews don't need to adopt Christian beliefs or even join the Republican Party. But they do need to stop slapping away the hand Evangelicals are extending, and learn to disagree without sneering. There is a war going on. And that means saving your declarations of war for the enemy...